Genealogy for
Mary Lucille Davis

Mary Lucille Davis was born on September 20, 1914 in Calhoun Co., Florida and died on January 6, 2001 in Blountstown, Florida. She lived to be 86 years old.

She was a supervisor of elections for Calhoun Co. FL . A member of the Eastern Star Chapter 179 and Christian Home Freewill Baptist Church.

children: James Franklin "Jimmy" Aultman Margaret Aultman

Census

4/13/1930

Blountstown FL (Calhoun County)

15 yrs old

Starting on line 93: Frank A. Davis (head of household, age 49), Mary (wife, age 44), Lucile (daughter, age 15), Falfa (daughter, age 12), Ellis (son, age 8). They indicated they lived on a farm and that all had been born in Florida. Frank was 24 when first married and Mary was 19 years old. All indicated they could read and write. Class of worker is listed as "O".

Census

1/1/1935

Blountstown FL (Calhoun County)

20 yrs old

page 38, line 4 -Woodroe Aultman (22), Lucille (20), Margaret (1). Woodroe is a laborer, he was born in GA, others in FL.

Woodrow W. Aultman BLOUNTSTOWN - Woodrow W. Aultman, 92, a retired carpenter, died Thursday, Jan. 6, 2005. The service will be at 3 p.m. CST Sunday at Christian Home Freewill Baptist Church. A burial with Masonic rites provided by Lodge No. 109 F&AM will be at Nettle Ridge Cemetery. Family will receive friends from 5 to 7 p.m. CST today at Peavy Funeral Home.

Mr. Aultman was born in Worth County, Ga., and had lived in Blountstown for most of his life. He served as a Calhoun County commissioner for 16 years. Woodrow was a member of the Christian Home Freewill Baptist Church in Blountstown and was a member of the Dixie Masonic Lodge No. 109 F&AM in Blountstown for more than 65 years.

Survivors include a son, James Franklin "Jimmy" Aultman (and wife Cynthia) of Blountstown; a daughter, Margaret Davis (and husband Joe Reese) of Blountstown; a sister, Ruby Crisson of Long Key; four grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren; and four great-great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by his wife, Lucille Aultman; five brothers; and two sisters.

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Mary, her family, and friends. For example, Mary is 13 years old when Charles Lindbergh becomes the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean and Babe Ruth hits 60 home runs.

Age

Date

Event

3

1917

Seminole Indians become a Florida tourist attraction.

14

1928

The Tamiami Trail opens. It opens the southernmost 275 miles of U.S. Highway 41 from State Road 60 in Tampa to U.S. Route 1 (SR 5) in Miami, Florida to tourist. It also destroys many of the Seminole Indian waterways and hinders their economy.

43

1957

The Miccosukee Tribe of Florida is organized under the 1934 US Indian Reorganization Act and recognized by the federal government.

48

1962

The Seminole Tribe of Florida is organized under the 1934 US Indian Reorganization Act and recognized by the federal government.

65

1979

The sovereign status of the Seminole Indian Tribe allows it to establish the first gambling establishment in FL. It is a bingo hall located on their Hollywood, FL reservation.

Age

Date

Event

9

1923

Freud publishes "The Ego and the Id"

9

1923

Diphtheria vaccine is developed; Insulin is produced to treat diabetes

10

1924

Insecticides are used for the first time on crops

12

1926

Goddard launched the first liquid-fueled rocket

13

1927

The first television transmission was announced in England

14

1928

Big bang theory was introduced

22

1936

The first regular television broadcast happens in England

24

1938

Hahn, Strassmann, Meitner and Frisch discover nuclear fission

32

1946

The university of Pennsylvania develops the ENIAC computer, containing 18,000 vacuum tubes

33

1947

Researches at Bell Labs invent the first transistor

37

1951

The first color television is introduced in the U.S.

38

1952

The first sex-change surgery was performed to change George Jorgensen into Christine Jorgensen.

43

1957

Sputnik is launched by the Soviets and becomes the first artificial satellite to orbit the earth. It marks the beginning of the great "space race" between the Soviet Union and the U.S.

46

1960

The ruby laser was created by Maiman

48

1962

U.S. astronaut, John Glenn, orbits the earth

51

1965

The first "space walk" was completed by the Soviet Union

57

1971

The first unmanned spacecraft hit Mars and was launched by the Soviet Union

60

1974

Discovery of "Lucy" in Africa, an almost complete hominid skeleton over 3 million years old, only 3 and a half feet tall but having adult teeth, a small brain, walked upright

61

1975

Invention of the CAT scanner (computerized axial tomography)

65

1979

First "test tube baby" from artificial insemination

67

1981

AIDS is identified by scientist; The first reusable space shuttle, Columbia, is sent into space.

72

1986

Moments after liftoff the space shuttle Challenger explodes, killing size astronauts and a New Hampshire teacher.

First Pathfinder vehicle lands on Mars and begin sending first photographs of Martin landscape. These are made available on the internet.

84

1998

Construction begins on the International Space Station.

86

2000

Successful cloning of animals begins in the early 2000s.

Age

Date

Event

3

1917

NEWS HEADLINES: In June, the United States enters World War I on the side of the allies. The Russian Revolution ends the reign of the czars and thrusts Russia into communism.

5

1919

NEWS HEADLINES: World War I ends with the signing of The Versailles Treaty.

24

1938

NEWS HEADLINES: Orson Wells' radio production of H.G. Well's War of the Worlds causes a national panic.

25

1939

NEWS HEADLINES: The first regular television broadcast happens in the United States

27

1941

NEWS HEADLINES: December 7, 1941 -- Japan launches a surprise attack on Pearl Harbor and the US officially declares war on Japan the following day. World War II begins for American soldiers.

36

1950

NEWS HEADLINES: On June 25, the Korean War begins and the United Nations officially declaring war on North Korea two days later.

41

1955

NEWS HEADLINES: Rosa Parks refuses to give her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, AL.

46

1960

NEWS HEADLINES: The first birth control pill was approved and made available to the public

49

1963

NEWS HEADLINES: On November 22, President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas by Lee Harvey Oswald.

55

1969

NEWS HEADLINES: In July, the U.S. becomes the first nation to land astronauts on the moon. Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to step on the lunar surface.

56

1970

NEWS HEADLINES: U.S. forces invade Cambodia and the Vietnam War continues to escalate. Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix die of drug overdoses. Four Kent State University students are killed during a Vietnam War protest.

63

1977

NEWS HEADLINES: Star Wars is released and becomes the biggest ticket selling movie of all time.

70

1984

NEWS HEADLINES: The first Macintosh computer with a mouse is launched and begins the computer age as it is shortly followed by the first PC and Microsoft.

78

1992

NEWS HEADLINES: The "World Wide Web" (Internet) became available for home use through college and university sponsored "freenets".

86

2000

November 7, 2000 - George W. Bush, son of the former President, and Vice President Al Gore hold a virtual dead-heat for the presidency, with a disputed vote in Florida holding off the naming of the winner of the President Election until the Supreme Court of the United States voted in favor of Bush on December 12. This ruling gave Florida to the Bush camp by a 527 vote majority, and a victory in the Electoral College, 271-266, despite gaining less popular votes than Gore.

86

2000

December 28, 2000 - Montgomery Ward, the retail giant since its founding one hundred and twenty-eight years before, announces its intention to cease business. Competition from newer, low-cost retail behemoths such as Wal-Mart lead to its demise. Over the next 10 years Wal-Mart pushes most other 'dime store' businesses to closure.

86

2000

April 3, 2000 - The ruling in the case of the United States versus Microsoft states that the company did violate anti-trust laws by diminishing the capability of its rivals to compete.

86

2000

June 1, 2000 - For the first time since 1851, the United States of America does not participate in a major World's Fair, the Hannover 2000 World Expo, despite a record number, 187, of international participants. President Bill Clinton had withdrawn U.S. participation late in 1999 after agreement to participate in 1997. Congressional apathy toward participation in world events continues a decline in U.S. involvement after the fall of the Soviet Union and victory in the Cold War. A consequence of this policy has led to a rise, among some experts, of anti-American sentiment, and a decline of U.S. influence in diplomatic affairs. Less than half, 18.1 million, of the original attendance estimate, 40 million, visit Hannover's event.

86

2000

The 2000 census enumerates a population of 281,421,906, increasing 13.2% since 1990. As regions, the South and West continued to pick up the majority of the increase in population, moving the geographic center of U.S. population to Phelps County, Missouri.

87

2001

NEWS HEADLINES: September 11 -- (9 11) -- The World Trade Towers are hit by terrorist flying commercial planes full of passengers.

87

2001

April 8, 2001 - Tiger Woods becomes the first golfer to hold all four major golf titles simulteneously by winning the Master's tournament in Augusta, Georgia. This followed a remarkable run in 2000 when Woods claimed victory at the final three majors of that season; the U.S. Open, the British Open, and the PGA Championship.

Age

Date

Event

13

1927

Charles Lindbergh becomes the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean and Babe Ruth hits 60 home runs.

15

1929

Widespread prosperity of the 1920s ends abruptly with the stock market crash in October

16

1930

Drought in the Great Plains area begins, creating hardship for farm families in 19 states.

18

1932

Amelia Earhart becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. The infant son of Charles Lindbergh is kidnapped and murdered.

19

1933

Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected president under his "New Deal" campaign. Frances Perkins becomes the first woman to hold a cabinet post when FDR appoints her secretary of labor. On December 5, the 21st Amendment is added to the Constitution, repealing Prohibition. Drinks for everyone!

20

1934

Farm families must leave the dust bowl-stricken Great Plains areas. The dust bowl includes areas in Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, Nevada and Arkansas. Radio picks up the "Okie" songs. In all, 400,000 people leave the Great Plains.

20

1934

Congress passes the Indian Reorganization Act which allows remaining Indian tribes to reorganize.

21

1935

Congress passes the Social Security Act, giving elder Americans Social Security money for the first time.

25

1939

Hollywood releases The Wizard of Oz, one of the first films to be made in color.

29

1943

Japanese Americans are relocated to internment camps; Almost 400,000 coal miners go on strike; Race riots break out in Los Angeles and Detroit.

30

1944

On June 6, Allied forces invade Normandy (referred to as "D-Day")

31

1945

President Roosevelt dies; The United Nations is established; the first atomic bomb is dropped on Hiroshima.

40

1954

The nationally televised McCarthy hearings lead to Senator Joseph McCarthy's downfall; Segregation by race in schools is declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court; Congress adds the words "under God" to the Pledge of Allegiance and requires "In God We Trust" to appear on all American currency.

48

1962

The Cuban missile crisis escalates and Americans prepare for a Nuclear War with Fidel Castro in Cuba.

52

1966

The Black Panther party is founded.

53

1967

Martin Luther King leads an anti Vietnam protest in New York; The American Indian Movement is founded; Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King are assassinated; Three Apollo astronauts are killed in a fire on the launch pad.

57

1971

Charles Manson is found guilt of murder.

58

1972

Break-in at the Democratic headquarters sets of the Watergate Scandal.

59

1973

The Vietnam War peace pacts were signed in Paris and the last of the American forces finally leave Vietnam.

63

1977

Jimmy Carter, a Democrat from GA, is elected president.

67

1981

Ronald Reagan is elected president. He will serve two terms. (Republican)

73

1987

January 24 - approximately 20,000 protesters march through Cummings, Georgia in all White Forsyth County.

73

1987

President Reagan and Soviet leader Gorbachev meet in Washington and sign an agreement calling for the dismantling of all Soviet and US missiles.

75

1989

George Bush is elected president. (Republican)

79

1993

Bill Clinton is elected president. He will serve two terms. (Democrat)

80

1994

O.J. Simpson is chased down by police and later his trial is telecast for the world to watch.

83

1997

A robust economy creates the longest prosperity in U.S. history.

85

1999

United States budget goes into surplus.

87

2001

George W. Bush is elected president. He is the son of George Bush who served as president from 1989-1993. He will serve two terms. (Republican)

Age

Date

Event

3

1917

Germany uses airplanes to drop bombs in the early stages of World War I -- the first major military use of airplanes.

5

1919

The Versailles Treaty marks the official end of World War I.

6

1920

Adolph Hitler begins to organize the Nazi party in Germany; The Ku Klux Klan launches a recruitment campaign using mass marketing techniques to gain 85,000 new recruits; the first commercial broadcast is made.

24

1938

Hitler annexes Anschluss into Germany. At the Munich Conference, Germany is given a portion of Czechoslovakia.

25

1939

Hitler takes over all of Czechoslovakia. On Sept. 1st, Germany invades Poland. On Sept. 3rd, Great Britain and France declare war on Germany. World War II has begun.

31

1945

World War II ends with a Japanese delegation signing instrument of surrender aboard battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay.

75

1989

The Berlin Wall falls uniting communist East Germany and capitalistic West Germany

Internet, cellphones, and social networking (using websites such as Twitter and Facebook) begin to grow in popularity and become standards for most house holds by 2010.

87

2001

October 7, 2001 - In response to the tragedy of September 11, the United States military, with participation from its ally the United Kingdom, commence the first attack in the War on Terrorism on the Taliban and Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan. By November 12, the Taliban government leaves the capital, Kabul.

87

2001

September 11, 2001 - 911 - Islamic fundamentalist terrorists hijack four U.S. airliners and crash them into the Pentagon and the World Trade Center in New York City. The attack of two planes levels the World Trade Center and the crash of one plane inflicts serious damage to the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, causing nearly 3,000 deaths. The fourth plane is heroically crashed by passengers into a Shanksville, Pennsylvania cornfield when they learn of the plot, preventing destruction of another structure in Washington, D.C., supposed to be the White House or the Capitol building. The plot is attributed to the Al-Qaeda organization led by Osama Bin Laden.

87

2001

April 1, 2001 - China-U.S. incident. An American spyplane collides with a fighter plane of China and makes an emergency landing in Hainan, China. The U.S. crew is detained for ten days

87

2001

September 18, 2001 - Anthrax attacks by mail from Princeton, New Jersey against news and government targets begin. Federal officials announce the first case on October 4. World wide concern about terrorism continues to escalate.

Four Generations

Mary Davis Aultman

Marriages

Woodrow AultmanBorn on November 10, 1912 and died on January 6, 2005.They were married 1/1/1931.

The Children of Mary Lucille Davis

15 years old

James Franklin AultmanBorn in Calhoun County, Florida on August 24, 1945 and died in Calhoun County, Florida on May 29, 2014. He was 68 years old.